World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
Eagle Forum Correspondent Cathie Adams reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sept. 1, 2002

While grazing for news releases at
the ongoing Earth Summit II in
Johannesburg, South Africa, a young woman offered media
representatives a free dinner with Timothy Wirth,
President of the United Nations Foundation
(www.unfoundation.org), an organization founded by CNN guru Ted Turner.

Since I have press credentials from USA Radio, the
offer was too good to pass up. But the gathering at
Liliesleaf Guesthouse (the hideout for ANC activist and former South African
President Nelson Mandela) was an intimate gathering, which
made it impossible to be inconspicuous. After
repeatedly being asked to further identify ourselves,
my co-workers and I realized we were not welcome and
graciously departed. Immediately after our exit, the
door was closed and the meeting began.

Nonetheless, conversations with other attendees during
our short stay and
the pricey packet distributed at the event entitled,
"Promoting Reproductive
Health, Saving Women's Lives," provided plenty of
information. The event was
co-sponsored by the UN Population Fund (www.UNFPA.org),
the largest abortion
provider in the world and a recipient of funding from
Turner's foundation.

In order to understand the importance of this meeting,
one must understand
that UN meetings build one upon another and that their
future plans are well
laid out. This current meeting in South Africa, for
example, builds upon the
1992 Earth Summit. The UNFPA claims that "new dialogue
at Rio [the Earth
Summit I] helped produce an historic agreement in 1994
at the International
Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in
Cairo, Egypt." During the
2000 Millennium Summit in New York City, the UNFPA
writes, "The world
community reaffirmed the ICPD aims."

The ICPD aims call for more "funding for new
infrastructure and upgrading of [abortion] facilities,"
while claiming to provide "management of complications
arising from abortion, and post-abortion counseling."
According to the ICPD, funding for reproductive health,
which includes abortion, is to grow to $21.7 billion by
2015 in order to provide "universal access to
comprehensive reproductive health services for all by
2015." While
the funding is today about $10.5 billion, the UNFPA
complains that it is far below the supposed commitments
made at the 1994 conference. Even worse in their view
is that the developed nations, particularly the
United States, are only contributing 40% of their
agreed-upon share while the developing world is
contributing 75%.

Abortion discussion is key to "sustainable development"
at this Earth Summit II. And here is how they make the
connection: "With 20% of the global population,
developed nations account for 85% of private
consumption. In contrast, the world's poorest 20%
account for only 1.3% of private consumption." In other
words, "a child born in the developed world has an
ecological impact equivalent to more than 30 children
born in the
least-developed countries."

To remedy this supposed injustice, Ted Turner created
his $1 billion UN Foundation in 1997 and hired former
U.S. Congressman Timothy Wirth to put a team together
to benefit UN causes, narrowing in on overpopulation
and the environment. Turner's solution to
overpopulation is limiting families to one child, and
consequently, the Foundation stalks the earth seeking
to destroy innocent life through "reproductive services
and education" (i.e., abortion) in spite of the fact
that the earth's carrying capacity will not be
overburdened because the Creator of Life is in absolute
control. (Turner also has called Christianity a
religion for "losers" and "not
environmentally-friendly.")

This UN meeting is part of the global body's aim to
promote the indiscriminate killing of the unborn
through abortion, as well as the continual chipping
away of U.S. sovereignty.

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